All Features articles – Page 658
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Housewives' choice
The JCT deserves a pat on the back for its new domestic works contract. It s eight pages long, easy to use and could save a lot of trouble when Mrs Bingham hires a contractor to build an extension.
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Welcome to total design
The outline of a new world of integrated specification, design and construction is becoming visible. Each stage in the process will be integrated with every other and it will speak your language.
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Is it e-legal?
More and more major clients are using electronic data exchange to manage project information. This is efficient, but unless firms are alert to the dangers, it can increase their legal risk.
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Why Harmon won at Portcullis House
A buy British policy, bullying by the construction manager and misconduct by an official seals victory for cladding contractor Harmon and raises questions over best-value procurement.
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Ivory towers
Birmingham city planners are doing their best to shrug off the city's "concrete jungle" tag. But, for Aston University's new student residences, architect Feilden Clegg has offered an upmarket take on the tower block.
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Just the job
WSP's sustainability director Peter Sharratt tells Elaine Knutt what he does, and why it doesn't give him much time to go sailing.
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Keith Miller
Privately owned Miller Group came to public notice with a protracted battle to buy Cala. That bid failed but the firm has a lot of hungry money. So how did a privately owned, family firm come by all that cash?
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If Laing lost, who wins?
Last week Laing joined the queue of major contractors opting out of competitive tendering, effectively giving £400m to its rivals. So, who is going to snap up all that extra turnover?
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Is Woolf working?
However fine the Woolf reforms sound in theory, the fact is that a third of parties have abandoned the courts since they were introduced. This would appear to be because, in practice, Woolf is making justice a lottery.
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Third party rights …
With third party rights legislation about to be enacted, what changes should consultants make to their contracts? And opposite, Melinda Parisotti discusses how the third parties themselves will be affected.
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… and wrongs
After considering the shortcomings of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Bill, you may well decide that collateral warranties may not be so bad after all …
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Appointments
ContractorsJohn Ruane has been appointed managing director of Birse Construction’s process engineering division.South-west-based contractor Stansell has appointed Gareth Williams group commercial director.Graham Ford, previously with Asda, has joined Wates Construction as its first national retail accounts manager.HousebuildersPhilip Hogg has been appointed marketing director of Miller Homes.North Yorkshire-based Harron Homes has ...
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Clash points
Contractors are happy to design and build – managing risk is part of their job description. But the corollary is that clients must allow them the freedom to do their job, and they cannot if designers are novated.
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Clash points
Of course responsibility and power go together, but the situation is not as simple as Jennie thinks – for one thing, novation is worse for clients than contractors, but intimately linked to single-point responsibility.
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Naughty contracts
It has come to our attention that there are certain firms attempting to evade the Construction Act. Mr Raynsford is very cross about all this, and if anyone is found guilty they’re in hot water …
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Cost model: Property taxation
Careful planning of property taxation issues can increase the value of investment in commercial property. In the latest cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest’s property taxation services group examines the issues and shows how allowances and deductions can be calculated for an office refurbishment project
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Package deals
Bosses’ pay is on the up and their cars are still flash – but next year they might all be opting for Peugeot 106s. Full salary breakdown by Hays Executive Recruitment overleaf.
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Partners in design
Tristram Carfrae has brought his engineering skills from the other side of the world to rebuild, repopulate, and re-enthuse Arup Associates. Now, he also finds himself having to fill the void left by the departure of design director James Burland.
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An ideal divorce
Breaking up is hard to do, especially when it comes to dividing assets – and especially when you're a company the size of Tarmac, and the computer network has to be split. It's the IT department you should feel sorry for ....